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the school, and the Sixth Form. keen all his life.

was also a prominent member of His attachment to Rugby remained He was especially pleased in his later years when he was allowed to have a table made out of the wood of one of the trees which came down in the Close. This small table was a feature of his study furniture. He had many stories to tell of Dr. Temple, his head-master at Rugby, and indeed of all his teachers. His greatest veneration was kept for Jowett, whom he always spoke of almost with bated breath. At Balliol he continued and strengthened his habits of thorough work. He often worked through the afternoon and evening, not even stopping for dinner in Hall, but having commons of meat and of cold apple-pie sent up to his rooms; and so he would work deep into the night. When supping alone he kept the Essays of Dr. Johnson open on the table, and cultivated his native gift of writing clear, forcible and classical English. His longest work, Physical Realism, shows this in the highest degree.

Thomas Case's character never changed. As a boy he had the characteristics which in later years his friends knew and admired. He was fearless and decisive; he despised cant and humbug of every kind; he was generous, open-handed, affectionate. His political opinions were always the same. He admired Lord Palmerston and quoted him on every side of public policy. He never had any confidence in Mr. Gladstone. He called himself a Palmerstonian Liberal, and his ideal of government was undoubtedly the Liberalism of the 'sixties. His letters to The Times are models of reasoned exposition of the principles of this school. Basing his views on Aristotle, Bacon, and John Stuart Mill, he was the unswerving defender of the principles of constitutional mixed government with the balance of power inclining to the Middle Class.

Except for a few months in business in London, almost all Case's life after he gained a Fellowship at Brasenose was spent at Oxford. In 1870 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sterndale Bennett. At first his married life was spent in Broad Street, later in the neighbourhood of the Parks, next for many years in Beam Hall when he was Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy. In 1904 he was elected President of Corpus, and took great delight as well as infinite trouble in rebuilding the President's Lodgings with his own plans and to a large extent at his own expense. In this worthy abode he and Mrs. Case dispensed hospitality with unending graciousness and charm.

As President he maintained the dignity and reputation of the College, which Dr. Fowler had already done much to increase. Case was a man with an absolutely fair mind. He weighed everything carefully, and at the same time was willing to discuss with others and to hear their views at any length. His courtesy was unfailing. In the keenest debates nothing could ruffle his temper. To the Tutors and Assistant Tutors he gave absolute freedom. Always ready to give help and advice, he waited to be asked. His library was at any one's disposal, his study door was always open; he was perfectly unstinting of his own time, while he took every opportunity that the condition of the College afforded to give Tutors time and means to carry on their own studies and to pursue their various bents. With the undergraduates he was cheerful, courteous, and, as he was with all men, bountifully hospitable. He rejoiced at their success, and he never failed to give them good advice. Curiously, for a man who had such a high standard, he was deeply sympathetic with those who did not succeed in gaining the highest honours. He never lost faith in any Corpus man; and many owe their ultimate success to his sturdy and often material

encouragement. His good deeds were legion, but they were not generally known. He took particular care in concealing his charities; but like everything that he did they were on the grand scale.

Thomas Case was one of the most remarkable men of his time. No one could speak to him even for a few minutes without carrying away something to think over. His range of knowledge was immense, his power of criticism and judgement was tremendous. But what endeared him to generation after generation of the College was his grand humanity, his warm affectionate nature, his sunny disposition. In the long roll of men who have built up and sustained the work which the Founder planned and established, Thomas Case is among the most eminent. Our master is gone, but his memory remains imperishably in the tradition of the College that we love.

R. B. M.

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